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David Bushell

CSS subgrid is super good

I’m all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now I’m seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks together. Consider the follower HTML: The content could be simple headings and paragraphs. […]

David Bushell

I quit. The clankers won.

… is what I’m reading far too often! Some of you are losing faith! A growing sentiment amongst my peers — those who haven’t already resigned to an NPC career path† — is that blogging is over. Coding is cooked. ...

Maurycyz

GopherTree

While gopher is usually seen as a proto-web, it's really closer to FTP. It has no markup format, no links and no URLs. Files are arranged in a hierarchically, and can be in any format. This rigid structure allows clients ...

Ted Merz

Cornell vs Navy

My dad’s a sports fan and I’ve been asking him about famous games he attended. This weekend he told me about the time he took my mom to see his alma mater Cornell play Navy in Annapolis in 1962. He ...

PythonBytes

#475: Haunted warehouses

Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our ...

Ted Merz

Playing a Different Game

Sometimes you can win big by playing the game differently. My father shared a story about one of the most famous football games in history. We were asking him about great sports moments he had witnessed such as Joe DiMaggio ...

Daniel Miessler

We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI

We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI/images/two-types-of-agi.webp/images/two-types-of-agi.webp I think the biggest problem with the AGI debate is that we're confusing two types of AGI. I propose thinking and discussing them as two different things: 1. Soft AGI: An AI system ...

Chris Coyier

Hawai’i

I’m just back from the United States 50th state, a staggering 2,500 miles from the mainland. For the next week or two, I’ll pronounce it Ha-Vie-ee, like how it’s pronounced in the native Hawaiian language. A language, by the way, ...

Daniel Miessler

AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding

AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp I think AI is revealing that a vast percentage of knowledge work is scaffolding overhead. Maybe 75-99%. 1. In my own field of cybersecurity, ...

Max Bernstein

Using Perfetto in ZJIT

Originally published on Rails At Scale. Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. img { max-width: 100%; } img:hover { transform: scale(2); transition: transform 0.1s ease-in; } img:not(:hover) { ...

Derek Kedziora

Prompting

I’ve noticed lately that more people are writing forum postings and Reddit questions as if they were writing a prompt for an LLM. Here’s an example from a Buddhist forum I lurk on:

Daniel Stenberg

Don’t trust, verify

Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other ...